After putting a couple of hours into online reading, the geothermal choice still makes sense (and saves cents). I only wish that I had more hands-on experience. This is going to be a black box solution, scheduled to come online just as thermometer drops outside. Little time for breaking in or fine tuning or whatever the proper expression happens to be.
posted in environment, Wx | Comments Off on Theory of comfort | 266 words
Here in my comfortable chair, with a large screen of content in front of me (and a smaller tablet in one hand), I give thanks that I’m not richer. Imagine a home, controlled through state of the art domotics; leaving the chair would be so kuch lower on my Maslow list.
posted in technology | Comments Off on All the conveniences of home | 263 words
Another playoff round is underway, in Canadian university football. Laval whupped one of the lesser pretendants to the crown this afternoon, while another moved into the forecourt. Next week, things get serious.
posted in music, sports | Comments Off on With some waving of my hands | 251 words
From where I sit, few topics are better served through television documentaries than recent military history. As in, man with his machines. Going back to the Prudential weekly lessons of my childhood, and moving along, my knowledge of who fought who, where and when comes from TV. No answer of why, unfortunately.
posted in technology | Comments Off on Streams of (in)security | 255 words
The dog gets fooled, every single time, by the sound of “our” doorbell on TV. Which begs the question: what’s he going to do in the new place? I could take the bell unit from here, to provide continuity. Something to think about.
posted in environment | Comments Off on New sense of suddenly | 253 words
Based on recent experience (six weeks and counting), there aren’t many folks who knock at the door during the day. When the tock tock came, at lunch time, I answered. A man in an overall with fluo trim, just like the people who climb hydro poles for a living. In fact…
posted in economy | Comments Off on The “new” meter man | 275 words
The email came during my afternoon nap. Ignore my propensity for resting, and focus. Thank you. Anyhow, the question was a simple one: “Where did we want the basement windows placed?” So simple…
posted in environment | Comments Off on Placing windows and such | 261 words
Erase the trace, one step at a time. My principal email address has to change, and there are a lot of contacts that are soon going to be irrelevant. For those list servers that provide a clean “unsubscribe” process – thank you! And may the others learn the heartbreak of rejection, as my (current) SMTP process ceases to acknowledge my “existence”. Finally, virtual life will model reality.
posted in politics | Comments Off on Provide winning tickets instead | 261 words
Winter will start, soon. There is snow, elsewhere, and in a state of proactivity, the car needs its all season tires swapped out for something better. This year, the lift and lug from the basement depends on son #3.
posted in environment | Comments Off on Dust off the DustBuster | 267 words
Bulletin at noon! Shooting season has begun. That wasn’t exactly how the story was reported, but it was important news, just the same. The vaccination campaign, against whatever strain of influenza is likely to cross my path in the next few months, started this morning. And here we were; already lunch time and we weren’t in line. I’ve learned that getting a place, early, counts.
posted in health | Comments Off on Seeking a scar | 316 words
